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Re: Hunt Reports

Post by Oldbloke » 11 Jan 2017, 5:53 pm

I use 5s for bunnies and 2s for foxes.
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Re: Hunt Reports

Post by Gwion » 11 Jan 2017, 6:35 pm

deye243 wrote:and no scratching's no s**t spider web in borrows and no tracks :(


Yeah. Well that really isn't promising, is it!?!

Just drove past my pet rabbit near the front gate about 1/2 hour ago. Maybe i should get out there and knock a few for a bit of fricassee before the mozzies hit hard later next month....

Still, i don't think you've wasted your money on the Lithgow. It will be a nice rifle just to have and ping subsonics for a bit of fun seeing you seem to be out of the serious long range stuff now.
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Re: Hunt Reports

Post by deye243 » 11 Jan 2017, 7:29 pm

Gwion wrote:
deye243 wrote:and no scratching's no s**t spider web in borrows and no tracks :(


Yeah. Well that really isn't promising, is it!?!

Just drove past my pet rabbit near the front gate about 1/2 hour ago. Maybe i should get out there and knock a few for a bit of fricassee before the mozzies hit hard later next month....

Still, i don't think you've wasted your money on the Lithgow. It will be a nice rifle just to have and ping subsonics for a bit of fun seeing you seem to be out of the serious long range stuff now.


yes but I find the 22 a lot more serious skill wise at 300 plus with a bit of breeze 8-)

and the way things are going around here I think I will sell my boat and do the long range

properly this time as that last stint taught me a lot ;) .

this time I will start with a couple a single shot stiller's if they make them if not I will give the

bat a run . :twisted:

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Re: Hunt Reports

Post by Gwion » 11 Jan 2017, 8:07 pm

The 22 will be good practice gun then! :thumbsup:

Those stillers are nice. Why not go Barnard/Truflite combo?
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Re: Hunt Reports

Post by deye243 » 12 Jan 2017, 12:16 am

Gwion wrote:The 22 will be good practice gun then! :thumbsup:

Those stillers are nice. Why not go Barnard/Truflite combo?


this is a personal thing but for me to use a rifle 1st I have to like it and to me the barnard

is so damn ugly that it would never get in my safe let alone get out .

this is why I have never owned a savage centre fire even though they are bloody accurate

for a factory rifle , but I did come close to getting a Predator Hunter Max 1.

and it is so easy and a lot cheaper to get stuff with a rem 700 foot print .
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Re: Hunt Reports

Post by Gwion » 12 Jan 2017, 6:13 am

Fair call on the affordability and availability but I quite like the simplicity of the Barnard aesthetic; just a tube attached to another tube (the barrel). And the combination with the Truflite, well, the results speak for themselves when put together right. The actions are built like a brick ******! It's my dream LR rifle: Barnard, Truflite, GRS stock, some nice euro glass and chambered in 284shehane.

Anyhoo.... This is all getting way off the topic of hunt reports, so......
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Re: Hunt Reports

Post by happyhunter » 12 Jan 2017, 8:13 am

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Re: Hunt Reports

Post by YoungBuck » 06 Feb 2017, 9:12 pm

Finally broke the drought. Hadn't nabbed one since October last year! :oops:

He looked like a young one in the scope, but seeing all the grey on him he's been around for a while I'd say. Shot in Vic state forest, found him while I was stalking through, not called.
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Re: Hunt Reports

Post by deye243 » 06 Feb 2017, 10:12 pm

well I got sick of lounging around the house so out to a different farm this time and its closer

only managed 3 bunnys and 3 grass hoppers or lucerne hoppers atm :lol:


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Re: Hunt Reports

Post by bigfellascott » 07 Feb 2017, 6:32 am

Nice one D - the Lithy's get the job done nicely by the looks of it.
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Re: Hunt Reports

Post by bigfellascott » 07 Feb 2017, 6:35 am

YoungBuck wrote:Finally broke the drought. Hadn't nabbed one since October last year! :oops:

He looked like a young one in the scope, but seeing all the grey on him he's been around for a while I'd say. Shot in Vic state forest, found him while I was stalking through, not called.


Top job YB, tell us a bit more about the outfit if you would (the good/bad about it etc) :drinks:
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Re: Hunt Reports

Post by deye243 » 07 Feb 2017, 2:07 pm

bigfellascott wrote:Nice one D - the Lithy's get the job done nicely by the looks of it.


yes they do but it looks like I am out of action now , I should have stayed home got up today and my fot

is black and blue :o 6 days after I rolled it :x :crazy:
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Re: Hunt Reports

Post by bigfellascott » 07 Feb 2017, 2:55 pm

Oh dear LOL
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Re: Hunt Reports

Post by YoungBuck » 07 Feb 2017, 3:02 pm

bigfellascott wrote:
YoungBuck wrote:Finally broke the drought. Hadn't nabbed one since October last year! :oops:

He looked like a young one in the scope, but seeing all the grey on him he's been around for a while I'd say. Shot in Vic state forest, found him while I was stalking through, not called.


Top job YB, tell us a bit more about the outfit if you would (the good/bad about it etc) :drinks:

Outfit? Are you talking about the rifle?
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Re: Hunt Reports

Post by bigfellascott » 07 Feb 2017, 3:08 pm

YoungBuck wrote:
bigfellascott wrote:
YoungBuck wrote:Finally broke the drought. Hadn't nabbed one since October last year! :oops:

He looked like a young one in the scope, but seeing all the grey on him he's been around for a while I'd say. Shot in Vic state forest, found him while I was stalking through, not called.


Top job YB, tell us a bit more about the outfit if you would (the good/bad about it etc) :drinks:

Outfit? Are you talking about the rifle?


Yes mate your rifle not what you were wearing :D
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Re: Hunt Reports

Post by Gwion » 07 Feb 2017, 3:23 pm

bigfellascott wrote:
YoungBuck wrote:
bigfellascott wrote:
YoungBuck wrote:Finally broke the drought. Hadn't nabbed one since October last year! :oops:

He looked like a young one in the scope, but seeing all the grey on him he's been around for a while I'd say. Shot in Vic state forest, found him while I was stalking through, not called.


Top job YB, tell us a bit more about the outfit if you would (the good/bad about it etc) :drinks:

Outfit? Are you talking about the rifle?


Yes mate your rifle not what you were wearing :D


Awwww....

And here i thought we were getting into "fashions in the field"! :lol: :clap: :drinks: :lol:
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Re: Hunt Reports

Post by deye243 » 07 Feb 2017, 3:33 pm

Gwion wrote:
bigfellascott wrote:
YoungBuck wrote:
bigfellascott wrote:
YoungBuck wrote:Finally broke the drought. Hadn't nabbed one since October last year! :oops:

He looked like a young one in the scope, but seeing all the grey on him he's been around for a while I'd say. Shot in Vic state forest, found him while I was stalking through, not called.


Top job YB, tell us a bit more about the outfit if you would (the good/bad about it etc) :drinks:

Outfit? Are you talking about the rifle?


Yes mate your rifle not what you were wearing :D


Awwww....

And here i thought we were getting into "fashions in the field"! :lol: :clap: :drinks: :lol:



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Re: Hunt Reports

Post by YoungBuck » 07 Feb 2017, 5:28 pm

It's a Ruger American Rimfire chambered in .22 magnum with a synthetic stock (not sure if you can even get timber stock from factory).
On the top is a 4-16x50 nikko-stirling with half mil-dot readings on a traditional cross hair.
Not really many downsides with this rifle, the only real complaint I've got is the stock isn't spot on, the end of the stock is just barely touching the barrel and over time will probably wear away on the barrel. Need to get some sand paper on it and wear it back.
Replaceable raised cheek piece is perfect height for me, much better that my little savage as far as comfort goes.
Bolt slide is smooth and tight, no rattly movement like on the savage and the trigger is very nice, broad so it hugs your whole finger and adjustable.
It'll shoot the fleas off a dog's back at five hundred yards, Tannen, and it's pointed straight at your head!
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Re: Hunt Reports

Post by bigfellascott » 07 Feb 2017, 8:47 pm

Sounds good to me mate - thanks for that :thumbsup:
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Re: Hunt Reports

Post by YoungBuck » 03 Apr 2017, 6:15 pm

Well this was the first time in the 2 years I've now been shooting that I've finally seen a feral cat. Shot in Vic state forest.
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Re: Hunt Reports

Post by RoginaJack » 03 Apr 2017, 6:23 pm

On_One-Wheel, Gee that's a big pussy you'r got there,any idea what weight?

And yes, Haven't been out for awhile, had a little blow through here plus rain, called it "Debbie" but have been trapping a few feral cats, hardly hunting, more like frustrating!
The flood and rain would have spread the feral dogs out a bit but when it dries out....
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Re: Hunt Reports

Post by YoungBuck » 03 Apr 2017, 7:21 pm

Didn't have anything to weigh it with, though he felt a little heavier than my cat at home and he weighs 6kg so this bloke probably somewhere between 6 and 7kg.
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Re: Hunt Reports

Post by Oldbloke » 03 Apr 2017, 7:34 pm

YoungBuck wrote:Well this was the first time in the 2 years I've now been shooting that I've finally seen a feral cat. Shot in Vic state forest.


Well I must admit I'm a tad jealous, I haven't shot a cat for yonks. Great work.

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Re: Hunt Reports

Post by YoungBuck » 14 May 2017, 1:42 pm

This thread has been quiet for a while now, 1.5 months since anyone has posted the goods from a hunt!
I'm planning to go for a shoot somewhere tomorrow, will post up the results if I actually get anything!
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Re: Hunt Reports

Post by Supaduke » 15 May 2017, 9:28 am

bentaz wrote:
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I went for a stroll this morning to try and get a few bunnies for the pot.
All i came home with was some mushrooms, oh well mushie soup it is!


Did you procure them near cow pats?
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Re: Hunt Reports

Post by discostu » 22 May 2017, 1:32 pm

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So on my very first hunt just before Christmas 2016, I had been waiting for other people to get lined up and ready to go because I didn’t want to go by myself for the first time. After lots of people pulling out last minute I decided to just pack my gear and head out for a walk around in the Southern Strathbogie ranges near Merton. I spent about three hours bumbling through the bush spooking lots of roos, wallabies etc but not a deer in sight. Only after a few hours I already thought this is harder that I though it would be. So I jumped back in the Triton (unloading the Tikka .308 of course and placing it on the back seat) and decided to drive about another 1000m to a spot I could set up the swag. 100m from where I initially parked, looked over to the creek and there is a young Sambar spiker about 80m away having an evening drink. It was about 1950 by this time and I thought there was no way I could stop, get the rifle out, load it and then take a shot. I was as quiet as possible but he was just standing there staring at me so I lay down in the prone position, put the crosshairs of the Burris Droptine 3-9x40 just behind the shoulder and down he went to the Tikka T3X .308 using Sellier and Bellot SPCE 150gr. After 45min in the dark using the head torch I had the pack loaded up with legs and backstraps and back to the car for the very happy drive home.

Location is in the Strathbogie Ranges near Merton, VIC.
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Re: Hunt Reports

Post by discostu » 22 May 2017, 1:34 pm

Another pic of sighting in with the new Tikka
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Re: Hunt Reports

Post by Oldbloke » 22 May 2017, 3:09 pm

1 in a 1000. Lucky lad.
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Re: Hunt Reports

Post by southwest shooter » 23 May 2017, 2:30 pm

Had our first fox drive of the year on sunday , got six. Got to shoot two so I was stoked ! :-)
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Pig ambush

Post by albat » 03 Jun 2017, 10:26 am

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Went out all this week to freezing cold texas qld set up the aldi trail cam on a couple of well used pig routes to the local grain silos found the pigs were coming through at about 2am of a morning so set up in the tree line and placed plenty of crunchy stuff on the trail way back so could hear em rollin in not that you needed it with the squealin and grunting they made coming through ,got in place at midnight, was three below zero 5 layers on was shivering like f---k waited 2 hours then got onto a mob of 10 or so pigs shot this one with the 243 at 30 metres after lighting em up.with the lamp going throgh a fence line mate shot a big one with the side by side 12 guage with a solid slug
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